Compressed Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I… — Margaret Atwood
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre… — George A. Sheehan
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy… — Henri Matisse
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. — Deepak Chopra
Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy de Gourmont
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of… — Caspar David Friedrich
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a… — Norman Maclean
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is… — Murray Rothbard
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on… — Philip Yancey
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, — Anna Quindlen
It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before. — Peter Chernin
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've… — Chris Roberts
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow… — Swami Vivekananda
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. — Richard Wagner
Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years. — Bill Mollison

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